Rivera, Diego ,b.1886, Mexican mural painter, studied as a youth with Posada and other Mexican painters; husband of Frida Kahlo. The native sculpture of Mexico deeply impressed him. In Europe (1907?9, 1912?21) he worked in several countries and was influenced by the paintings of El Greco and Goya. He had close association with C?zanne and Picasso and with communistic Russians in exile. He became convinced that a new form of art should respond to ?the new order of things . . . and that the logical place for this art . . . belonging to the populace, was on the walls of public buildings.? Returning in 1921 to Mexico, he painted, with the assistance of younger artists, large murals dealing with the life, history, and social problems of Mexico, in the Preparatory School and the Ministry of Education in Mexico City and the Agricultural School of Chapingo. To the peasants and workers he became a sort of prophet.

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